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This is a good observation, but I think causality is reversed: narcissists by nature develop whatever skills will attract the most adoration.

Trump plays the strongman / oppressed white man card. If the populace valued different things he would happily parade around in negligé. He’s just playing to the audience, and it’s not narcissism so much as bullshit archetypes that they want.




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